Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,589, Benjamin Gleason, Conn. Continental

SERVICE
NUMBER
Comm. Continental
Gleason, Benjamin or Glesen
S. 39,589 B.L.W. 642-100
CONTENTS

No 642.
Benjamin Gleason. —
Private.
2 d Regiment Connecticut — Line, — Revolutionary Army.
Warrant issued under date 4 th of March 1815, to Benj a Gleason, and delivered, on the 3 rd of March 1815, to the Hon ble Charles Rich, M.C.
Military District
Deposited by the hon ble W. C. Bradley. Noted on D.R. 8 th Oct r 1814.

Identification and Collected 1800 to James Ely, Brattleboro, Vermont
1748
Vermont rolls
Benjamin Glason Col o Warner's Swift New-Hampshire & Conn ty Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Enrolled on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 d of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818 and sent to Phoebe White Esq rs Putney - Vt
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818
4 mo 13/30 — $ 35.45
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
76 war 7 years Col o Seth Warner's reg t
Dummerston, Windham

N o 87
Benjamin Gleason.
Application for Pension.
Windham County, Vt.
[Copy]
740
con Sept 1875
Wind - Woodstock Vt. Mar 1881

STATE OF VERMONT.
COUNTY OF WINDHAM ss.
At the County Court, begun and held at New-Fane, within and for the County of Windham, on the second Monday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.....
PRESENT—Hon. PHINEHAS WHITE, Esq. Chief Judge. Hon. JOHN ROBERTS, Hon. GILBERT DENISON, Esqrs. } Assistant Judges.
ON this 20 th day of June, A. D. 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a civil jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having, in certain cases, the power of fine and imprisonment, Benjamin Gleason aged seventy five years, resident in Dummerston in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
I enlisted in the 1776 the month forgotten, During the war, in the 2 d Reg t of the Connecticut line commanded by H. Smith Col o - was in no real engagements, was discharged at West Point on North River in the year 1783 - in the month of June I think, my discharge will show, which they have at the Department, which I sent them for the purpose of obtaining my bounty land
That he has received a pension under the act of the Congress of the United States of the 18th March, 1818, that the number of his pension certificate is 1748 and the date of his original declaration is 22 d day of April 1818.
AND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR, That I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: And that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Benj m Gleason
SCHEDULE of real and personal estate, necessary clothing and bedding excepted.
Which property consists of one Note of hand which I sold my bounty land for bearing date April 7 th 1819 of one hundred & fifty dollars on interest payable in three years from the date, and eleven dollars and ninety two cents, remaining of my pension money rec d since due last March — I am otherwise poor, neither house nor home, no where to lay my head, no wife nor children nor never had —
June 20 th 1820
Benj m Gleason
AND I do also swear that my occupation is that of a farmer, but I am now blind and infirm in body and not able to do any thing towards supporting myself — and after under the care of a Physician, and expect so to be as long as I shall live
Benj m Gleason
SWORN to and DECLARED in open court on the
20 th
day of June, A. D. 1820,
Before
Phinehas White
JUDGE.
James Elliot
Clerk of the County Court for
the County of Windham, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the files and records of the said Court: And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is One hundred & sixty five dollars, and — cents.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, in open Court, on this eighteenth day of June 1820.
James Elliot
CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF WINDHAM

Bonja. Glenn, Appln.
Swifts Count. regt.
Admitted
P. White
Putney
Vt.
(3)

To all whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas the County Court within and for the County of Washington and State of Vermont. — — —
I Benjamin Gleason in the 74 th year of my age and was a resident in the town of Sumner in the County and State aforesaid claiming the benefit of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval services of the United States, in the Revolutionary War." In pursuance to the provisions of the provisions of the said act here, upon oath, make the following Declaration to wit, That I the said Gleason served in the War of the Revolution on the Continental Establishment, as follows. I enlisted 1776 in the fall of the year, for and during the War in the Regiment under Col. Warner, under Col. Chapman of the Connecticut Line and continued in said Regt. till the year 1780 when I was transferred to the 2 d Regt. of the Connecticut Line under Col. Smith — and continued in the said last Regt. till the Peace was proclaimed in June 1782 when I was honorably discharged my discharge was signed by Gen. Washington, with a Badge of Merit — which said Discharge I now suppose to be in the Office of the War Department — having some years ago sent the same in order to get my land — I was in the battles Lake George under Col. Warner — and sundry other Skirmishes at different times and places.
And I further, upon oath, I am, in firm and said oath declare that, in regard to any redound circumstances I am in need of the assistance of my country for support —
In witness whereof I have set my hand this 22 d day of April 1810. — — —
He Benjamin + Gleason Mark

State of Vermont Windham County ss
Be it remembered that on this 22 d day of April AD 1818 Benjamin Gleason before mentioned personally
appearing made solemn oath to the truth of the proceeding Declaration by him subscribed, before me Phinehas White Chief Judge of Windham
County Court ———
And I do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Benjamin Gilson did serve in the Revolu- tionary War, as stated in the proceeding Declaration against the common Enemy for more than nine months on the Continental Establishment And I do now transmit
the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the above mentioned act of Congress
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Official signature and have caused the Seal of Windham County Court to be affixed —
Phinehas White } Chief Judge of Windham County Court
Windham County ss } July 7 th 1818 —
I hereby certify that I know Benja. Gleason, the applicant, in the present case to be a poor blind old man - am satisfied that he is in indigent circumstances and need the assistance applied for —
Phinehas White
Chief Judge of Windham County Court

39589 INVALID.
Key
File No. 89589
Benjamin Gleason Dr Her Has
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 199
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Gleason, Benj. Conn.-Cont. 539589
Albany Aug 24/81, Tested
W. H. Furman Agent

for thirteen Dollars & \frac{30}{90}
Westport 12. Dec. 1783
Sir Please to pay unto _____ on this order thirteen Dollars & \frac{30}{90} for my wages as a Soldier in the Conn. Regiment for May & June 1783 - for Value Recd, by me the Subscribed _____ J. Clark To M r Joseph Clark Pay Master.
Connecticut Regiment, Accepted to pay the above order when I receive money for that purpose J. Clark P.M.

Gleason, Benj. Conn - Cont S 39599
[Faint handwritten text, possibly "S 39599" or "S 39599"]

Danbury in Fairfield County Decemb: 29 th 1783
Gentlemen For Value Received
Please to Pay unto Benjn Gleason of Wooster Massachusetts Bay State the whole of my wages Due to me for my Service as a Soldier in the Connecticut Regiment in the Continental army in the year one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Three being Six months Lacking three Days and his Receipt shall be your Discharge and you will oblige your humble Servt Henry Hopkins
To Mr. Clark Paymaster or to any other Gentlemen that may be appointed to Settle the Balance of S Regiment
Danbury on the Day of the above Date Personally appeared Mr. Henry Hopkins of reading the Signer of the above instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free act & Deed before
Me Thad us Benedict Justice of Peace

Benjamin Gleason, admitted 1818, Vermont No 1748, for Niplett

By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Benjamin Gleason, Soldier in the Second Connecticut Regiment, having faithful- ly served the United States from May 1777 to June 1783 and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the 11th June 1783
G Washington
By His Excellency's
Command,
William Schuyler
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
J. Hart Adjutant.
THE above Gleason has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for six Years faithful Service. H. Swift

HEAD-QUARTERS, June 20 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Benjamin Gleanon June 20 1783
Benjamin Gleanon B.L.H. 642-100 Comm. & Continental

The affidavit of Benjamin Gleason of Dummerston in the County of Windham and State of Vermont Who testifies and says that he is the same Benjamin Gleason, who was an enlisted soldier, in the late Revolu- tionary War, that he enlisted, during the war , in the year 1776. and continued in the service, till June 1783 when he was regularly discharged. For two or three of the last years of said service, he belonged to the 2 d Regt. of the Connecticut Troops, under the command of Col. Herman Swift. That he never has received the Right of Land. To which he was entitled, as a during of war's man , as a part or any Land Warrant therefor - and never, till lately, made any application for the same. - And that in the Month of September now last past, he delivered his discharge, which he received at the time of leaving the service in 1783. to Jonathan Knight Jd. of Dummerston, to be by him delivered over to the Hon. William C. Bradley now member of Congress from Vt. - And further the deponent saith not. — Benjamin Gleason
State of Vermont } At the town of Dummerston, this Windham County ss } sixth day of January in the year of our Lord 1815 the above named Benjamin Gleason personally appeared, and after being duly confirmed, and carefully examined, made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him submitted contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Before me,
Phinehas White } Chief Judge of Windham County Court.
The affidavit of Jonathan Knight Jd. of Dummerston in the County of Windham and State of Vermont - Who testifies and says, that he has long been acquainted with

Benjamin Gleason, now of Danmerston, aforesaid, was knowing to his having been out as a soldier, in the late Revolutionary war, and has frequently seen the said Gleason's discharge from the service, signed, if he mistakes not, by Col. Herman Swift, Genl. Washington's which discharge, he in the month of September next last past, received of the said Gleason, and delivered the same with and other papers, to the Hon. Wm C. Bradley, now Member of Congress from Vt. for the purpose of enabling the said Gleason to obtain the County Lands to which he is entitled for his services as aforesaid And further the deponent saith not. Yours? In right
State of Vermont } At Granville this sixth day Windham County ss. } of January in the year of our Lord 1815. Personally appeared the above named Jonathan Knight Jr. and after being duly cautioned, and carefully examined made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him submitted contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth. -
Before me
Phinehas White } Chief Judge. } of Middlesex } County Court.
State of Vermont - Wineham County ss. - Crattleboro January 6 th 1815.
I Lemuel Whitney Notary Public within and for the County of Windham aforesaid. Do hereby certify - That Brinehas White Esq. who certifies the preceding affidavits, is now, and for several weeks past hath been Chief Judge of the County Court, within & for said County of Windham, and a Justice of peace, by virtue of said Office And that full faith & credence is, and ought to be given to all his Official Acts, attestations and doings as such. In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, & affix my Notarial Seal the date above. Lemuel C. Whitney N.P.

To The Hon. the Secretary of War Washington City
Sir,
Please to deliver
a Land Warrant, of the Lands to which I am entitled as a Revolutionary Soldier, to the Hon. William C. Bradley a Member of Congress, from the State of Vermont, whom I hereby appoint my agent and attorney for that purpose
Your Obedt. Servt.
Brattleboro Vt. Jan. 6 th 1815
Benj o Gleason
Witness Miss s White.
The honorable
The Secy at War
Is requested to deliver the before mentioned warrant to the Hon. Chas. Rich M.P. who will forward it to his
very H ble Servt Wm C Bradley